
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, May 23, 1993                   TAG: 9305230065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

GEN. JOHN FROST, WORLD WAR II HERO, DIES AT 80

Maj. Gen. John Frost, whose heroic role in the Allied defeat at Arnhem during World War II inspired the movie "A Bridge Too Far," died Friday. He was 80.

Frost's family said he died at his home at Milland in Hampshire, 45 miles southwest of London.

The Allies, hoping to end the war by the end of 1944, dropped British and Polish paratroops at Arnhem in the Netherlands to seize a highway bridge over the lower Rhine river.

The men were trapped by superior German forces and had to fight tanks while waiting for an armored relief column that never arrived. With 600 men, Frost clung to the northern end of the bridge for four days before surrendering. - Associated Press

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